1989 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1989.
Contents |
[edit] Newly formed bands
- 122 Stab Wounds
- Aggressor
- Abhorrence
- Abruptum
- Bal-Sagoth
- Beherit
- Benediction
- Brujeria
- Mägo de Oz
- Bruce Dickinson's solo career starts (though he remains with Iron Maiden until 1993).
- Cathedral
- Comecon
- Consolation
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dissection
- diSEMBOWELMENT
- Dungeon
- Edge Of Sanity
- Falkenbach
- The Gathering
- Gorefest
- Gorguts
- Immortal
- Incantation
- Iniquity
- Insanity Reigns Supreme
- Isengard
- Living Sacrifice
- Marilyn Manson
- Mortician
- Necromantia
- Necrophobic
- Aggressor
- Novembers Doom
- Ophthalamia
- Polluted Inheritance
- Pitch Shifter
- Saviour Machine
- Sentenced
- Sigh
- Slaughter
- Tourniquet
- Thorns
- Thought Industry
- Unanimated
- Unleashed
- Vital Remains
- Vomitory
- Von
- While Heaven Wept
- Wizard
[edit] Albums
- 24-7 Spyz - Harder Than You
- Acid Reign - The Fear
- Accept - Eat the Heat
- Addictive - Pity of Man
- Aerosmith - Pump
- Alice Cooper - Prince Of Darkness, Trash
- Annihilator - Alice in Hell
- Atheist - Piece of Time
- Atrocity - Blue Blood (Single)
- Autopsy - Severed Survival
- Bang Tango - Psycho Cafe
- Blue Murder - Blue Murder
- Believer - Extraction from Mortality
- Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
- Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind
- Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos - Slaves To Darkness
- Candlemass - Tales of Creation
- Cannibal Corpse - Cannibal Corpse (5-song demo cassette)
- Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
- Coroner - No More Color
- The Cult - Sonic Temple
- Cynic - Reflections of a Dying World (demo)
- Dark Angel - Leave Scars
- Deliverance - Deliverance
- Destruction - Live Without Sense
- Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
- D.R.I. - Thrash Zone
- Entombed - But Life Goes On (demo)
- Equinox - Auf Wiedersehen
- Evildead - Annihilation of Civilization
- Excel - The Joke's on You
- Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
- Extreme - Extreme
- Faith No More - The Real Thing
- Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
- Forbidden - Raw Evil: Live At The Dynamo
- Forced Entry - Uncertain Future
- Funebre - Cranial Torment (demo)
- Grave - Anatomia Corporis Humani (demo)
- Great White - ...Twice Shy
- Helstar - Nosferatu
- Hermética - Hermética
- Holy Moses - The New Machine of Lichtenstein
- Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
- King Diamond - Conspiracy
- KISS - Hot in the Shade
- Kreator - Extreme Aggression
- Korzus - Pay For Your Lies
- Lääz Rockit - Annihilation Principle
- Leatherwolf - Street Ready
- Living Death - Worlds Neuroses
- Lizzy Borden - "Master of Disquise"
- Lobotomia - Nada É Como Parece
- Macabre - Gloom
- Massacra - Nearer from Death (demo)
- Mekong Delta - The Principle of Doubt
- Metal Church - Blessing in Disguise
- Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
- Morgoth - Resurrection Absurd
- Mortal Sin - Face of Despair
- Mortem - Slow Death
- Mr. Big - Mr. Big
- Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood
- Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
- Nitro - "O.F.R."
- Nuclear Assault - Handle with Care
- Obituary - Slowly We Rot
- Onslaught - In Search of Sanity
- Overkill - The Years of Decay
- Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
- Phantom Blue - Phantom Blue
- Primus - Suck on This (live)
- Rage - Secrets in a Weird World
- Rotting Christ - The Other Side of Life (split EP with Sound Pollution)
- Rigor Mortis - Freaks
- Running Wild - Death or Glory
- Rush - Presto
- Sabbat - Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays)
- Sacred Reich - Alive at the Dynamo
- Saint Vitus - V
- Sarcófago - Rotting
- Savatage - Gutter Ballet
- Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
- Skid Row - Skid Row
- Sodom - Agent Orange
- Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
- Stone - No Anaesthesia!
- Stratovarius - Fright Night
- Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
- Tankard - Hair of the Dog (compilation)
- Terrorizer - World Downfall
- Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
- Testament - Practice What You Preach
- Thanatos - Omnicoitor (demo)
- Toxik - Think This
- Unseen Terror - The Peel Sessions
- Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice
- Viper - Theatre of Fate
- Voivod - Nothingface
- W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
- Watchtower - Control and Resistance
- Wehrmacht - Biermacht
- White Lion - Big Game
- Whitesnake - Slip Of The Tongue
- White Zombie - Make Them Die Slowly
- Winter - Hour of Doom (demo)
- Wrathchild America - Climbin' the Walls
- Xentrix - Shattered Existence
- X Japan - Blue Blood
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Trial By Fire: Live in Leningrad
[edit] Disbandments
[edit] Events
- Primus records their live album Suck on This at Berkeley Square in Berkeley, California on February 25 and March 5.
- Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Ozzy Osbourne, Scorpions, Mötley Crüe, and Skid Row take part in the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 12 & August 13, 1989.
- For the first time in its history, a Grammy is given for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. The award is given to Jethro Tull for Crest of a Knave
- Jason Becker is diagnosed with ALS.
| Preceded by: 1988 |
Heavy Metal Timeline 1989 |
Followed by: 1990 |
